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Donna was beaten up on a night out to celebrate her 50th birthday (Picture: MEN Media)

A mum was left covered in blood after being beaten up on a night out to celebrate her 50th birthday.

Donna Walker suffered a two inch gash on her forehead and a bite mark to her arm after she was attacked by a younger woman in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, on Sunday morning.

She and her husband had been waiting for takeaway food when they were caught up in a large fight involving another group.

Their 22-year-old son suffered bruising to his neck and a minor head injury after someone tried to strangle him during violence which broke out inside the Atlantis takeaway on Hollowgate and then spilled out into the street.

Donna needed a CT scan at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as medics were concerned she may have suffered an injury to her brain.

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Now recovering at home in Linthwaite, Donna said several people had been involved in the fighting which she compared to a ‘bar room brawl’ in a movie.

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‘I have been given antibiotics and a tetanus [shot] for the bite. The doctor said it was worse than a dog bite. I have had six butterfly stitches in my forehead.’

She doesn’t know what sparked the violence and hadn’t realised at the time the extent of her injuries.

‘Everybody was asking if I was okay. I was saying I was fine but my right eye was starting to blur.

‘I wiped my eye and saw all the blood. I had no idea I had been struck. My son phoned the police and they were there in 15-20 minutes.’

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Her husband Carlton, 45, who rescued his wife from the attacker, said: ‘When I saw my wife covered in blood I was horrified.

‘One woman was attacking her and one or two others were trying to split it up but it was just escalating.’

At around the same time, two men were attacking one of the couple’s two sons who had been knocked to the floor.